Yoda wrote:The Last King of Scotland - 8.5/10 - great acting with a deep story and very entertaining. Highly recommended.

V for Vendetta - 9/10 - I liked it much better the second time around probably because I wasn't as critical on the comic book to celluloid translation. Great story and acting. Probably the best comic book/graphic novel movie ever made.

still haven't seen the 1st one, but have really wanted to.

I thought V started out very strong, but rushed itself starting about halfway through. I would have liked to have seen them dig into V more, though I'm not familiar with how the novel goes or how many liberties the Wachowski Brothers took with it.

I believe, though I'm not certain, that the author was so displeased with the movie that he actually asked for his name to not show up in the credits.

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I don't know......there really wasn't a ton of action I didn't think....I mean they made you think there was virtually no one left but yet you hardly ever saw any of the infected either....where was everyone or at least where were all the zombies. I just think they could have done more with it. It was an ok movie but not one that I will be talking about or telling others that they have to go see it.

I don't know......there really wasn't a ton of action I didn't think....I mean they made you think there was virtually no one left but yet you hardly ever saw any of the infected either....where was everyone or at least where were all the zombies. I just think they could have done more with it. It was an ok movie but not one that I will be talking about or telling others that they have to go see it.

The movie had a small budget, and you could tell in some of the "urban wasteland" scenes that they didn't do nearly enough to make it look like a disaster had occurred. I remember one scene where there was either a car or a bus in the middle of the intersection. If that was a real disaster - as sudden as the movie let on - there should have been dozens of abandoned vehicles.

I just pretended it was accurate. That's the price of watching a low-budget flick, I guess.

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Yoda wrote:The Last King of Scotland - 8.5/10 - great acting with a deep story and very entertaining. Highly recommended.

V for Vendetta - 9/10 - I liked it much better the second time around probably because I wasn't as critical on the comic book to celluloid translation. Great story and acting. Probably the best comic book/graphic novel movie ever made.

still haven't seen the 1st one, but have really wanted to.

I thought V started out very strong, but rushed itself starting about halfway through. I would have liked to have seen them dig into V more, though I'm not familiar with how the novel goes or how many liberties the Wachowski Brothers took with it.

I believe, though I'm not certain, that the author was so displeased with the movie that he actually asked for his name to not show up in the credits.

Yeah it was different from the book for sure but still, the premise and story were very good. Nice action scenes and great acting as well.

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Just rented Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang. Utterly, hilarious. Downey Jr. and Kilmer are a crack up to watch. Hopefully, Kilmer does some more comedic roles in the future, cause he's always been quite good at it. Good Lord, the girl who plays Downey's love interest is a fox. Michelle Monaghan was also in MI:3 for those that have seen it. In any case, very fun movie. I'm a bit surprised it came and went from theaters so quickly, though it was rather acclaimed by the media.

Dr. Duran Duran wrote:Just rented Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang. Utterly, hilarious. Downey Jr. and Kilmer are a crack up to watch. Hopefully, Kilmer does some more comedic roles in the future, cause he's always been quite good at it. Good Lord, the girl who plays Downey's love interest is a fox. Michelle Monaghan was also in MI:3 for those that have seen it. In any case, very fun movie. I'm a bit surprised it came and went from theaters so quickly, though it was rather acclaimed by the media.

9/10

Here is my take of Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

First hour of movie: 9/10
Rest of movie: 2/10

The movie lost all of it's cleverness and momentum; or is it just me? It started out so great... the scenes with Kilmer and Robert Downey, Jr. were excellent as well as the voice-overs and cut scenes through. The script and filmmaking were original and fun, like you said not to mention the dialog was clever and entertaining. Then, the movie just died and clunked along like a boring romantic comedy... the voice overs, cut scenes and campy film-noir spoofage all just kind of fell apart and all we were left with was a smug Roberty Downey, Jr. whining for an hour.

It deserves the recognition it gets for starting out so clever, but it just couldn't maintain it IMO.